Ransacking America

October 17, 2009
Bailout Helps Fuel a New Era of Wall Street Wealth
By GRAHAM BOWLEY NYT
"Even as the economy continues to struggle, much of Wall Street is minting money — and looking forward again to hefty bonuses..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/business/economy/17wall.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

SIMON JOHNSON of Baseline Scenario:
"The US increasingly displays characteristics that we have seen many times in middle-income “emerging markets” – new dimensions of vast inequality, forms of financial instability that benefit the best connected, and consistently easy credit for the privileged. But this raises the question: who exactly is going to dominate our economic and political landscape moving forward?"
http://baselinescenario.com/2009/10/17/who-is-carlos-slim/